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Foodie Exchange

It began with a question: Wouldn’t it be great to connect some wonderful food bloggers through a surprise gift exchange?

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Who doesn’t like surprise presents, right?

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Bloggers from all over the country were paired up with each other. Each blogger had to send their partner a surprise parcel with some local food stuff, small gifts, and anything else they wanted. (It was recommended to include a handwritten note.) Then you would blog about it.

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At the start we had 18 bloggers. Some couldn’t manage it, but most did.

Largely it’s been a success. From the feedback I’ve gotten, it seems that some packages lacked thought, while some others really went all out. That was bound to happen I guess.

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All I can say for sure, is that my partner did not disappoint. Not one bit 🙂

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Deeps, who blogs at Naughty Curry is one of the warmest people I know, and her blog is stunning to say the least. She has easy to follow step-by-step images with her recipes that make it a pleasure to cook, and her photographs always make me hungry.

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Look at this stash of wonderful things she sent me!

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My parcel included:

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A lovely bottle of orange-champagne marmalade. Yum!

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Some Sri-Lankan Blackcurrant tea. Very thoughtful, because she knows I’m a tea person.

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Mango pulp. You can’t go wrong with this.

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Lindt Intense orange dark chocolate! I’m saving this to savour it greedily, all by myself 😀

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And, my favourite thing: Masala biscuits which she baked just for me. They’re delicious by the way.

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I also got a beautiful handwritten note with some really encouraging, positive words. Did I mention that all the gifts were tied up with a light-blue polka dotted ribbon? Too cute!

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aw, ur just too nice charis! seriously this is nothing compared to ur lovely package but i loved being a part of such a wonderful event 🙂 waiting to read from the others who took part… and yeah im all up for the next one too! (p.s: cringed at the state of masala biscuits, i was so hoping they wud reach intact)